Anticipation is but a deflexion or declination by accident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature] Reference

In Azaleas a curious deflexion of the parts of the flower may occasionally be met with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Look to sincerity in working, and faith in dependence; God's truth and fidelity will carry him out to give you unconquerable supportment: -- deflexion from these will be your destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

At other times still, a person would raise a hand or gesture in passing, manoeuvres which would in normal contexts seem innocent, yet combined as they were by those other intrusions I have mentioned, were such a deflexion from everyday comportment that I was quite puzzled as to their meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stream and The Torrent] Reference

But up to sixty yards the lateral deflexion from wind is negligible; past this it may amount to three or four feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting with the Bow and Arrow] Reference

He took it as distinct that there was nothing he could do in preference that wouldn't be spoiled for him by any deflexion from that point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Muse] Reference

The variation alters progressively, increasing to a maximum in one deflexion; it then retrogrades till it points true north, which it progressively overpasses in the opposite deflexion to a maximum again.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08] Reference

In these old times, the estimated or computed mile seems to have been about one and a half of our present statute mile, which would make the entire distance 322 statute miles; and allowing one quarter far deflexion and mountain road, reduces the inland distance of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08] Reference

Looking into the word as into a glass we have a representation made to us there, of the new creature in all the lively lineaments of it; and so we see what we should be: and comparing ourselves therewith, we see what we are; and wherein there is a deflexion, and disagreement from our pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference

For I find no sufficient or competent collection of the works of Nature which have a digression and deflexion from the ordinary course of generations, productions, and motions; whether they be singularities of place and region, or the strange events of time and chance, or the effects of yet unknown properties, or the instances of exception to general kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advancement of Learning] Reference

It is, that if platina electrodes dip into acidulated water, no change is produced in the passing current by making the positive electrode hotter or colder; whereas making the negative electrode hotter increased the deflexion of a galvanometer affected by the current, from 12° to 30° and even 45°, whilst making it colder diminished the current in the same high proportions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference

And if the deflexion be copious and thick, it immediately proves fatal to him, for by its cold it prevails over the blood and congeals it; or, if it be less, it in the first place obtains the mastery, and stops the respiration; and then in the course of time, when it is diffused along the veins and mixed with much warm blood, it is thus overpowered, the veins receive the air, and the patient recovers his senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Sacred Disease] Reference

A woman whose self-scrutiny has been as sharp as her deflexion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)] Reference

We brushed against that truth just now in our glance at the denial of expansibility to any idea the mould of the "stage-play" may hope to express without cracking and bursting -- and we bear in mind at the same time that the picture of Nanda Brookenham's situation, though perhaps seeming to a careless eye so to wander and sprawl, yet presents itself on absolutely scenic lines, and that each of these scenes in itself, and each as related to each and to all of its companions, abides without a moment's deflexion by the principle of the stage-play.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awkward Age] Reference